Friday, December 12, 2008

Churmundo ~ Wheat Laddoo

One of the advantages(disadvantages!!) of blog hopping is that I get to know what I have never made in my life for years (now that does not mean I am very Old!!!!!) One such day I hopped to Harini's blog only to find a Laddu staring at me! Now for a person who is away from her hometown this was hard to resist! But having zero experience in making laddoo it was hard to think of.. But mind was constantly thinking only about laddoo. Finally decided to muster up some courage and try my hand at making them at home. Now this laddoo happens to be our fav, so thus it was decided that I would make it. When Amma was online pestered her to give me exact measurements. Now I am sure a lot of you out there will agree with recipes our mom's give us ( I am not complaining but ypou know we need exact measure in Cups,teaspoons!). I ask her "Kithle Tup?" (How much ghee).. her reply would usually be.. "Teh haanv ashi dole andaajeri ghalche!" (That I usually eyeball!!!) and my irritatingly, immediate response .. "tugele dole andaaju makka kashi kalthale???!!!!" (How am I to know your proportion"!!! Finally after she convinced me I wrote it down and kept looking forward for an opportunity to make them.

Yesterday when I felt my sweet tooth needed some treat decided to make this. It was actually simple and was wondering why I never made it all this while! The main reason why I was worried was I had never helped amma with this laddoo. Usually my aunt's used to come over so they helped her whenever we had to do in large quantities. Anyways, it came out good and that is why I am sharing this with you.

Here is what's needed:

1 Cup Wheat flour/Atta

1/2 Cup Powdered Sugar

1/4 Cup Ghee

1 tsp Fresh Cardamom Powder

Procedure:

1) Heat Ghee in a kadai and add the Wheat flour. Fry on low until the raw smell goes off and gives out a nice aroma. The colour changes to slightly dark brown. Switch off.

2) Add in Sugar and Cardamom Powder and mix well. (Taste the mixture and add more sugar powder if you desire. The measure given above is for semi sweet laddoo) Let it cool until the mixture is easier to handle.

3) Take some mixture in your palm and roll it into a ball. You cannot use both your palms to shape this up as it is crumbly.

I could make 15 small laddoo's using this measure. You may add Cashews and Raisins fried in Ghee. I did not.

26 comments:

Hey Uj..you made this laddoo for the first time..??It looks so pretty and perfect..I have tried making this laddoo at least 5 times and always end up having churmundya pitti..;-)lolz..great job on making those perfect rounds!!

Sakkadale Amma tashichi :-) We don't get right measurements. I love this laddo next to besan ladoo. Uj, I tried making this in microwave and came out fine. However i have trouble making into rounds, purai pitto jhata.

Wheat laddoos are one of my favs. They are not too sweet, & I lvoe the texture. U are like me, never want to try making them at home,e ven tho i like them so much. I am getting inspired to try them now:-)